Description
Small octavo (8.5 x 5.25 in), vi, [7]-504pp. Publishers original calf binding, gilt title and decoration on spine, title in gilt over red leather. Tight bindings. Frontispiece portrait of Hamilton opposite title page is lacking. Stamped with “W.D. Thornton” on first free endpaper. Additional portraits of James Madison opposite page 70, John Jay opposite page 294. Light foxing throughout. Clean text. Sabin 23984
Comments: This work is the second Philadelphia edition of the Federalist Papers and the second single copy edition. For this edition an appendix was added, which includes: the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and first 12 Amendments. An overall very good copy of an important American work.
